Friday, February 25, 2011

Alert: This is a stock clearance post and shares some pics which may not be that interesting.

Fellow blogger Sankara recently published lot of colourful photos of toys made at Chennapatna, a small town enroute Mysore from Bengaluru. Chennapatna toys are world famous. Read his post here

Seeing Sankara’s post I realized that I’d visited few toy making units of Chennapatna in 2010. I do not have colourful pics of final products, but got to see their machinery and workshops, where they turn out wooden pieces into colourful toys.

Besides toys, they also cater to wide range of corporate requests. They were asked to make prototype of a Airbus A320, one of the aircraft types most of Kingfisher fleet belong to. Earlier in the day I’d clicked few close-up photos of the aircraft model, at Mysore airport [Related: Kingfisher service launched from Mysore]
Above: Airbus A320 prototype spare parts separated…
Below, work in progress version of wooden prototype and the workshops in Chennapatna
Don’t have much text to write about, just wanted to share the above photos. Sankara's post has more details and interesting pics.

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It must have been fascinating to see toys being made. I recently took my son to a weaving unit, and he was thrilled by the experience. So this is one more thing for me to do when I finally get to Mysore!